re: X Windows and alternatives

Then I suggest you try "TWIN"
On Oct 2, 2012 5:19 AM, "LM" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:00 AM,   Kenno Han wrote:
> > It is hard looking for FB-based window manager. I do have some sugestion
> on
> > an alternative. Are you comfortable with curses-based?
>
> Always interested in suggestions and recommendations.  I happen to
> like curses based applications.
>
> I've been looking into some of the lighter-weight window managers.  At
> the moment, I really like jwm.  That has very few X dependencies and I
> read that there was a port of some version of it that worked on nano-x
> without X.
>
> I've also done some research on ways to run multiple apps outside of X
> Windows.  There are options like screen, dvtm, twin and tmux.  Haven't
> found one where I'm comfortable with the key-mappings yet and I didn't
> notice any that had options to customize key-mappings.
>
> Thought this thread on the topic looked interesting:
> http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/21216/the-great-directfb-thread/
> There's also some directfb support for X applications with XDirectFb:
> http://directfb.org/index.php?path=Projects%2FXDirectFB
> There's some information at the Arch wiki on framebuffer projects at:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fbpad
>
> I do a lot of work straight from the command line and typically don't
> even go into X unless I want to multitask or run an X based
> application.  So I a window manager isn't an essential to me for
> getting tasks done (although it can be very convenient).
>
> One thing I'd really love to find is a decent programming editor.  I
> realize that's an incredibly subjective subject.  What I want most in
> a programming editor is to be able to map the commands to any keys I
> want.  The second thing I want is to be able to shell out, run other
> applications and bring back the results to work with (such as jumping
> to error message lines in files after compiling).  I currently use
> SciTE, but I'd like to find something a lot more lightweight.  I do
> like nano and pico, but I find them kind of restrictive.  I've never
> been able to get used to emacs and I tried very hard to customize vim,
> but it takes me a month to write a customization that I can do in a
> day with SciTE.  I recently looked at FXiTe, but it's missing some of
> the functionality I like in SciTE.  It loads faster than SciTE, but
> both require X Windows.  If anyone knows of a lightweight programming
> editor with really good keymapping support, I'd very much like to hear
> about it.
>
> If anyone has any other tips on lightweight X alternatives or building
> a lighter version of X, hope you'll share them.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
> Laura
> http://www.distasis.com/cpp/osrclist.htm
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